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Gone with the Wind
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- They were all healthy, thoughtless young animals, sleek, graceful, high-spirited, the boys as mettlesome as the horses they rode, mettlesome and dangerous but, withal, sweet-tempered to those who knew how to handle them.†
Chpt 1.1
- They were all healthy, thoughtless young animals, sleek, graceful, high-spirited, the boys as mettlesome as the horses they rode, mettlesome and dangerous but, withal, sweet-tempered to those who knew how to handle them.†
Chpt 1.1
- The army in butternut were now seasoned fighters, their generals had proven their mettle, and everyone knew that when the campaign reopened in the spring, the Yankees would be crushed for good and all.†
Chpt 2.14 *
- He had never thought that women of her strong mettle had tears, and a flood of tenderness and remorse swept him.†
Chpt 4.31
- There was something about the prospect of a struggle of wits with a man—with any man—that put her on her mettle and, after months of battling against countless discouragements, the knowledge that she was at last facing a definite adversary, one whom she might unhorse by her own efforts, gave her a buoyant sensation.†
Chpt 4.34
Definitions:
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(1)
(mettle) courage or strength of character
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)